Question on outgoing F-15s

[The Other Guy]

Will they be shipped out to foreign countries, or will they be used as trainers?

 

[phoenix80]

Will they be shipped out to foreign countries, or will they be used as trainers?

Probably will be used as primary fighters for ANGs (Air National Guard units) after being withdrawn from frontlines, and then will be shipped to AMARC Davis Monthan AFB and from there they'll be reconfigured for QF-15 programs in future.

 

[bulldogg]

They are beyond being airworthy and yet you don't want some nut job taking one for a joyride. When they're decommisioned they'll do them like they do the F-14's, they'll have their backs broken and all the sensitive parts we don't want the ChiComs reverse engineering will be removed and put in Missileer's lunchbox.

Air force plans to buy jets that need shorter runway
By Rich Chang
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, Jan 23, 2006, Page 3

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The air force is preparing to build a new fighter that has vertical/short taking off and landing (VSTOL) capabilities. "Because of the strong likelihood that landing strips at air bases will come under intensive missile attack and be destroyed during a war with China, the air force considers fighters with VSTOL capabilities to be most suitable for Taiwan's defense," air force Commander Liu Kui-li (劉貴立) told the Chinese-language China Times daily yesterday.
"The air force is open to any kind of VSTOL fighters, and is not necessarily aiming for the US' Joint Strike Fighters [JSF] that are in development," he said.
Liu said the air force hopes to create the new fighter force by 2020. He said the upgrading of the fleet was necessary to counter Chinese military spending.
Minister of National Defense Lee Jye (李傑) last week told a press conference that the US refused to offer Taiwan its newest JSFs, which will come into service in the next few years. The Ministry of National Defense has calculated that Taiwan would find it difficult to procure the US model before 2020.
Lee said the ministry asked the US to sell Taiwan a number of decommissioned US F-15 Eagle fighters in last year's defense meeting between the two sides, but the US did not agree to the sale.
"Because of the gradual decommissioning of the aging US F-5Es and Taiwanese IDFs [Indigenous Defense Fighters] over the coming years, the air force is expected to be short by more than 40 fighters in 2015," Lee said.
Lee said the ministry hoped to procure more than 40 decommissioned F-15s to fill the vacuum in air defense before the next-generation fighter force is built.
However, Liu told the daily that the air force had evaluated the decommissioned F-15 fighters and decided they were too old to meet its requirements. He said the air force would continue to ask the US to help Taiwan enhance its F-16 Falcon force's capabilities, although the US has not agreed to do so to date.
Taiwan has 146 F-16s, 56 Mirage-2000s and 128 IDFs in its current fleet as well as more than 60 F-5Es. Liu said the F-16 and Mirage-2000 fighters would remain in service for another 15 to 20 years.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/01/23/2003290353

Air Guard A-10s Rocked the Serbs. Why Were the Other Fighters Left Behind?
Last month, as Air Guard A-10s flew over Kosovo, destroying nemy tanks and artillery, many Air Guard F-16s and F-15s sat idle on their home tarmacs. Either their engines were too old, their communications systems too weak, or their weapons systems too out-dated to get in the war.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3731/is_199907/ai_n8866297

Israeli F-15s downed over Lebanon
Contributed by Bill Faith Paris 14-09-2006. Tragedy was narrowly averted hours ago when French Peacekeepers, operating in accordance with the provisions of U N Resolution 1799, which replaced Resolution 1701 after further discussions with Iran and Syria, put a quick end to renewed Israeli aggression.
The incident reportedly began when two civilian Lebanese youths inadvertently launched a homemade rocket that killed 23 Tel Aviv dwellers and injured a few dozen more. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, hot headed as ever, immediately ordered punitive airstrikes against the Lebanese populace. Disaster was averted when French Peacekeepers manning a freshly activated Iranian SAM site destroyed two Zionist aircraft enroute to carry out their grisly mission.

http://www.oldwardogs.us/2006/08/israeli_f15s_do.html

 

[The Other Guy]

Thanks, BD. I wanted to find out what was being done to these. Didn't make sense to just scrap them, seeing how much they cost. But I don't see them in the hands of, say, Croatia.